RI.10.2 Determine a central idea of a text; provide an objective summary. RI.10.4 Analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone. RI.10.6 Determine an author's purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that purpose.
Read and annotate the excerpt from Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
As you annotate, underline EVERY instance of the words "free" or "freedom."
Highlight a sentence with "free" or "freedom" in it that you find the most impactful. Make it a sentence that you think really stands out.
In a circle, each student reads his/her highlighted sentence. What words and ideas did we hear again and again? Why?
Writing
Look at a sample chunk from last time. Look at the highlighting on your chunk. What could you do to improve your analytical writing?
On a half sheet of paper, write a chunk. Focus on DIDLS and how his writing choices work to achieve purpose.
Today's Objectives
RI.10.2 Determine a central idea of a text; provide an objective summary. RI.10.4 Analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone. RI.10.6 Determine an author's purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that purpose.Finish Presentations!
Finish presenting research projects.The Language of Freedom
Writing
Look at a sample chunk from last time. Look at the highlighting on your chunk. What could you do to improve your analytical writing?On a half sheet of paper, write a chunk. Focus on DIDLS and how his writing choices work to achieve purpose.